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Youth Work and Community Development – (M.A.)
De Montfort University
Health and Life Sciences
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 2,890 - | ||
| Location: | Leicester / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of De Montfort University
Why this course?
* Youth and community staff are engaged in professional practice, research, consultancy and teaching
* Professionally validated by the National Youth Agency (NYA) and recognised by the Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC). Also endorsed by England Standards Board for Community Development work.
* An opportunity to study at an advanced academic and professional level
* High quality practice-related modules enabling practitioners and clients to achieve planned change through the process of education, development and practice-orientated research
* Develops innovative, progressive practitioners who reflectively engage with concepts and practices of social justice and equality
Career opportunities
Graduates go into a wide range of senior posts in youth work and community development work in both the statutory and voluntary sector. An MA is a recommended qualification for senior positions in recent workforce development proposals.
Teaching/assessment
The distance learning course works to build a learning community, from the initial contact on selection day and in the induction periods onwards. Assessment is usually by written assignment of 4000 words per 15-credit module. Contributions to online seminars are also an attendance requirement.
Contents
The course consists of four core modules, one core field placement module, and three specialist modules taken from a list of 15. You may then seek to exit with a PG Dip, or remain on the course to complete your dissertation for an MA. All core modules and most option modules are launched during one of two block teaching weeks held each year (usually in October and February). Attendance at launch days is compulsory. These are supported by a wide varietyof written material, individual and corporate tasks. You are required to engage in a number of online seminars in each module. You should identify a supervisor who will primarily support your field practice, but may also provide a dialogue partner to discuss wider issues arising from the course.
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Core modules include:
* Theory and Practice of Community Development (15 credits) focuses on community development and will introduce key concepts in relation to practice, policy and the National Occupation Standards
* Health and Social Research Methods 1 (15 credits) introduces a limited number of strategies and methods of social science research. These will include those commonly used by practitioners in social and health care settings
* Theory and Practice of Youth Work (15 credits) introduces key theoretical contexts for youth and community practice: political (policy), sociological, philosophical, historical and psychological. You will also be required to place your own work within this wider professional and theoretical framework
* The Alternative Field Practice (15 credits) is practice-based (150 hours) and provides you with the opportunity to further develop your experience and understanding of the role of the informal educator at JNC professional range in a youth and community work development setting which is different to your usual workplace
* Management of Services and People (15 credits) seeks to enhance self-confidence and performance as a manager. This will be done by critically examining some of the central issues in project management in the light of the values of youth and community development work, and current management theory.
Optional modules include:
* Designing, Delivering and Assessing Learning aims to support and improve your knowledge and skills for designing, delivering and assessing learning of your staff and/or clients
* Supervision in Youth and Community Development seeks to enable you to examine and develop your own supervision practice in the light of critical consideration of meaning and context
* Social Exclusion, Disaffection and Youth Work is designed to further the skills and knowledge of professional practitioners to take account of the emerging and changing policy agenda for work with young people
* Faith and Community Development will consider the ways in which religious beliefs are expressed in individual and corporate behaviour
* Global Issues in Youth and Community Development provides the opportunity to globalise the theory and practice of community development
* Mental Health provides an awareness of the main concerns surrounding mental health services and a consideration of the potential role they might play within their practice of youth work and community development work
* Peer Health Learning recognises the growing importance of peer-led educational initiatives, especially in the field of health education
* Managing Race and Diversity aims to analyse concepts of oppression, discrimination and inequality and enable you to develop effective antioppressive and anti-discriminatory practice
* The Negotiated Module provides an opportunity to study in an area which is important to your academic and professional development
* Anti-Oppressive Practice analyses concepts of oppression, discrimination and inequality and develops effective anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory practice
* Young People, Active Citizenship and Participation has been developed to support your critical engagement with issues of citizenship, identity and belonging, rights and responsibilities when applied to the contexts of young people
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
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Entry and Admissions Criteria
* You need to demonstrate that you can work at Master
* You may be required to undertake pre-registration modules before starting or complete an agreed portfolio of learning in the form of a 2000
* You must be engaged in at least 12 hours appropriate work, paid or un-paid, per week
* You will need to attend an interview
Students whose first language is not English and/or have not been taught and examined solely in an English medium will generally need to provide evidence of their English language in the form of an IELTS or recognised equivalent examination The score required is typically IELTS 6.0 for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught courses within the Faculty of Technology.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
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